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Exactly this. It's easy to differentiate between real violence and fake. Even virtual nudity is pornographic, and pornography is a very slippery slope that's very damaging to the soul.

Man, what kind of world do you live in? One where you read and trust this kind of propaganda that you read on the internet?

Propaganda? Women tell me that pornography exploits women.

Propaganda? Women tell me that pornography exploits women. Women are taken advantage of: women who can find no other way to make money get into the pornography industry, they don't want to but have little choice (I don't even want to get into the exploitation of children). And you can say pornography isn't as bad as drugs, and you're probably right but pornography addiction is still an addiction and is unhealthy.

As far as art goes, I don't know if I would consider pornography in video games art, especially if it's to follow a trend or to sell more copies. And it still puts you at risk for pornography addiction.

I don't think looking at porn is healthy and there are a lot of people whom I have talked to in the religious and the medical (especially mental health) communities who will tell you this.

If I was married and had children and I was looking at internet pornography regularly do you really think that that would be a healthy situation, Seriously? You're in denial if you think you can maintain a healthy marriage whilst being addicted to internet pornography. What kind of example would you be to your children? What would your wife (or husband) think of you?

I was hoping there would be a way for Larian to leave nudity out of their game because I really want to play it and I didn't think it would hurt to ask, but I do have my opinions.

I don't mind a healthy discussion but if this turns into an "attack the OP because his opinion differs from mine" I will no longer post in this thread.

And religion can be an addition as well and it constantly hurts hundreds of millions of people every single day. It also empowers hundreds of millions of people every day.

Too much of anything is a bad thing. People can become addicted to sugar, video games, sex, working, body-building, salt, water, television, sleep, and more. But just because someone looks at pornography doesn't mean that they are addicted, or are going to become addicted. Nudity and sexuality in video games != pornography.

Some women say everything exploits women; some say pornography is empowering if a woman chooses to do so.

Larian will not be adding nudity to the game, and have never indulged in 'fan service'. If you didn't have a critical problem with Astarte's outfit in D:OS or collecting the second teleporter, there is no reason to expect a change in design for the worse for the next game.
One of the female writers has said in an interview that the male writers can write good female characters. While an effort to design good male and female characters with realistic motivations and interactions does not preclude nudity, it is certainly inconsistent with nutidy being added just for the sake of adding it (or as Dr Koin said, because you think your main demographic is adolescent boys).

Realistically, there will be no way to filter profanity, but modern profanity will not be used in the game, because it doesn't fit. If you didn't have problems with the language in D:OS, I don't see why there is any reason to expect D:OS 2 to be worse in that regard.

I'm still not really understanding the basic premise that pornography (actually I think we started off on partial nudity, but I'll run with it) is somehow inherently harmful to the point where depictions thereof are undesirable but the same is apparently not true of violence. "It's easy to differentiate" one but not the other: why? I'm seriously not understanding this.

I'll repeat, just for clarity, that I don't believe that a depiction of either is a slippery slope: which is important because there are people who believe both to be the case, as well as other aspects in video-games. Another topic is already talking about the apparent evils of ouija boards, and it's fairly well-publicised that even the Harry Potter series of novels were criticised in some quarters for supposedly promoting witchcraft. I think the slippery slope is that if one thing offends someone and should be removed, then many other things offending other people have the same merit and we wouldn't be left with much.

Nudity and overt sexuality in a Divinity game would be silly; it would contradict the established tone of Rivellon. I don't expect to see it, I wouldn't expect to see it and I'm pretty certain I won't see it in the finished game.

It's kind of a silly topic to discuss, since one thing Larian has always been very consistent on is the tone of their games, which have always been very whimsical and hardly "grim," "gritty" or adult-themed.

Too much of anything is a bad thing. People can become addicted to sugar, video games, sex, working, body-building, salt, water, television, sleep, and more.

Men are very, very visually sensitive when it comes to sex, so even drawings can be very arousing to men. Whereas, when we look at violence in a video game we don't generally go out and start punching people...

Can someone point out to me where in the 1st Divinity Original Sin there was nudity or vulgar profanity? I don't count the encounter with the mayor's wife considering you never see any nudity. Frankly I think people are getting themselves worked up over a moot point.

I hope, like the first one, Larian won't have swearing (like the s-word and f-bomb) and nudity, otherwise I cannot play it. I plan on backing this game for $50 when Larian starts accepting PayPal. I'm pretty excited about this!

Yup, women also watch pornography. It's a well established fact now.

And really, sure, we don't go out and start punching people when we play violent video games ( despite what the medias would like to have us believe ), but then again, we don't go out and start raping women when we watch porn.

Pornography is harmful to the recipient, you don't have to go out and rape someone for it to affect you or other people in a negative way.

I laughed.... I laughed hard...I laughed long...Oh my god people..as a female gamer I want to say LAWL, LAWL I say. "Porn is evil and will melt your eyes" *throws bibles at people* seriously get off it. This is not the place for a topic like this. Take it to 4chan.

I think there are some small minds wobbling around and if I offend someone with saying that, well you know where you fit. Porn is not a drug nor is it dangerous... is also does not exploit women. That is just narrow minded thinking.. cause what about gay porn? let me guess that exploits women? *shifty eyes*

If anyone is worried about Larian adding any nudity or even sexual graphic material to the game, you are worrying for nothing...I mean they might add gender specific replies in dialog chats, but I doubt it will be anything nude or porny.

*puts on her black robe*

The OP never claimed they did, nor did I ever see him get worked up. He wrote (emphasis mine):



So whom are you addressing? I think the thread has been relatively civil so far.